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Most of the time we just think people that don't like certain foods are extremely picky. However, there may be a much bigger issue. These food phobias may just be the weirdest thing you have ever heard in your entire life!

Some Completely Strange Food Phobias Are:  

Geumophobia: the fear of taste

Geumophobia can manifest as anything from a fear of just unpleasant flavors, to panic at the thought of any taste at all, which must make life very boring for their dinner guests. For most sufferers, the dinner menu is probably not so obviously handicapped, and they mostly just stick to familiar — and slightly bland — options, only getting palpitations at the approach of new or unusual flavors.

Arachibutyrophobia: the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

Arachibutyrophobia is not the fear of peanut butter—sufferers often still enjoy it—but rather the fear of it getting stuck to the roof of the mouth. Strategies for coping with this fear include taking small bites, preferring crunchy peanut butter with a different texture, or adding large amounts of jelly or other substances to create a barrier between the butter and the skin.

Mageirocophobia: the fear of cooking

It's easy to see how this phobia could interfere with life but to read some websites, you might think the biggest issue it causes is a bit of embarrassment at a friend's potluck, or being unable to share the cooking duties with your spouse. In truth, the risks are much greater: since the first step in being able to look after yourself is a healthy diet, not being able to cook could cause bad health and poverty from having to eat out, or order in, every single meal. Add to that anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, and you've just mixed together the worst recipe imaginable.

Phagophobia: the fear of swallowing

Sufferers of this particular phobia can find themselves in something of a catch-22 situation, with the fear actually causing the throat to tighten and increase the difficulty of swallowing, which in turn feeds the fear, and so on. Also since this feedback loop is mainly a mental process—often with no immediately detectable physical problems associated with it—sufferers are regularly dismissed by medical professionals when they search for help.

Cibophobia: the fear of food

Cibophobia is most common in children, but in some cases lasts into adulthood, and while some fears are specific to a certain kind of food, as ever there are extremes. This phobia actually sounds a bit more rational  in some ways than the others we've mentioned, in that sufferers are scared of food doing them harm. Much like a paranoid person is convinced everyone is out to get them, a sufferer of cibophobia thinks that the food they eat will make them sick or kill them. This sometimes leads to obsessive restrictions on the preparation of food, or even the complete exclusion of solid foods from the diet.

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These food phobias are so strange it just might make you see food in a completely different way. Do you know anyone with these food phobias?

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Article Source: Grunge